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fglrx-installer package

Scrambled text when scrolling horizontal

Bug #931596 reported by Jesusfreak
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fglrx-installer (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

When I scroll through a spreadsheet horizontally I get scrambled text, see picture attached. This happens occassionally, so I am not able give information about how to reproduce this bug.

sudo lshw -C video
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series
       vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: 00
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=fglrx_pci latency=0
       resources: irq:50 memory:f0000000-f7ffffff ioport:2000(size=256) memory:f8000000-f800ffff memory:f8020000-f803ffff

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: libreoffice-calc 1:3.4.4-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-16.28-generic 3.0.17
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-16-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Feb 13 19:21:06 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: libreoffice
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2012-02-08 (5 days ago)
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ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu7.1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-16.28-generic 3.0.17
Tags: oneiric
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-16-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2012-02-08 (5 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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Jesusfreak (launchpad-bikelab) wrote :
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Jesusfreak (launchpad-bikelab) wrote :
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penalvch (penalvch) wrote :

Jesusfreak, thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please execute the following command, as it will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal:
apport-collect 931596

affects: libreoffice (Ubuntu) → xorg (Ubuntu)
Changed in xorg (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Jesusfreak (launchpad-bikelab) wrote : Dependencies.txt

apport information

tags: added: apport-collected
description: updated
penalvch (penalvch)
tags: added: corruption
penalvch (penalvch)
tags: added: hw-specific
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penalvch (penalvch) wrote :

Jesusfreak, by using the proprietary, closed-source fglrx driver, fixes for bugs in this driver are limited to that provided by AMD. Despite this, please answer the following questions:
1) Could you please execute the following at the Terminal and post the results to this bug:
sudo lshw -C video
2) Does this issue occur with the newer version of the fglrx driver? One may test this via a Precise Live CD environment from: http://xubuntu.org/news/precisealpha2/ .
3) Does this issue occur with the open source ATI/Radeon driver? So you don't have to reconfigure your drivers, you may want to test this in an Oneiric Live CD environment from: http://xubuntu.org/getxubuntu/ . However, if you want to test this via your current install, please see: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver .

affects: xorg (Ubuntu) → fglrx-installer (Ubuntu)
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Jesusfreak (launchpad-bikelab) wrote :

1) Output of sudo lshw -C video is:

  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series
       vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: 00
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=fglrx_pci latency=0
       resources: irq:50 memory:f0000000-f7ffffff ioport:2000(size=256) memory:f8000000-f800ffff memory:f8020000-f803ffff

I will test 2) & 3) later.

penalvch (penalvch)
description: updated
bugbot (bugbot)
tags: added: xubuntu
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TRoloff (roloff) wrote :

I can confirm this bug, but would like to add that it happens with other "table displays", too (e.g. pgadmin3 sql query). Refreshing the table by changing the zoom level (ctrl+mouse wheel up/down) fixes the display.

I'm using debian 6.0.4, Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux,
updated to the latest driver I found on the website (amd-driver-installer-12-2-x86.x86_64.run), same behaviour.

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Jesusfreak (launchpad-bikelab) wrote :

I did the update ot Precise a couple of days ago and can confirm that the bug still is an issue with Precise.

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penalvch (penalvch) wrote :

TRoloff, if you are having a problem in Debian, please report this to their bug tracker.

Thanks!

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Wolfgang Illmeyer (w-illmeyer) wrote :

I noticed this problem using Eclipse. I got a workaround - if I switch to XRender compositing instead of OpenGL, the text stays readable all the time. Tested with KDE

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